Su Yiman's intention is obvious, with such a favored minister as an internal response, the Ottoman Empire has been settled, and the conditions for the start of the Eurasian Canal are fully mature, so Zhu Cijiong decided to immediately organize manpower and related materials to prepare for excavation!

This is a rather huge project, according to Xiao Jiucheng's early calculations, the shortest distance between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea is almost 400 li, and in order to allow large warships to pass safely, the depth of the canal must be at least 20 meters, and the width cannot be less than 100 meters, the workload can be imagined.

Historically, the French consul in Egypt, Ferdinand. Morality. It took a total of 11 years for the Suez Canal Company established by Viscount Reseb to dig the entire canal, and the difficulty of the project can be imagined.

Of course, Ferdinand. Morality. At that time, in order to save costs, Reseb did not provide the necessary food and medicine for the local migrant workers, and he did not even bother to organize people to transport fresh water less than 100 miles away, which directly led to nearly 120,000 deaths of starvation, thirst and disease during the entire canal construction process!

Zhu Cijiong doesn't know much about this history, and he doesn't know how long it took him, but in his plan, the Eurasian Canal will be completed in no more than half a year.

People have been digging for eleven years, but he only used half a year, isn't this a bit exaggerated?

Actually, this is not an exaggeration at all, because Lei Saibu is just an ordinary viscount with limited ability, and Zhu Cijiong is the emperor of the Ming Empire, and the resources he can use are quite terrifying.

First of all, in terms of manpower, Lei Saibu can recruit tens of thousands of migrant workers at one time, and recruit again after death, and recruit again after death, intermittently, which reduces efficiency; Zhu Cijiong is different, he prepared 500,000 prisoners at one time, and if you count by the number of people alone, the efficiency will immediately be more than ten times higher!

Then, the Ming Empire has strong financial resources, food and medicine are absolutely enough, as for water, just organize tens of thousands of people to pull it in a carriage, not to mention drinking, bathing is no problem, so as to ensure that the people who work always maintain sufficient physical strength, and the efficiency is more than doubled.

Finally, Daming also has an artifact earth-turning dragon, and Zhu Cijiong specially prepared a hundred earth-turning dragons in order to build a canal!

A ploughing dragon is more than two meters wide, 50 ploughing dragons are more than 100 meters wide, 100 ploughing dragons are divided into two groups to turn back and forth on the ground, and the working captives do not have to dig hard, as long as the soil is shoveled up into the frame and picked away, in this way, the efficiency has increased and I don't know how many times.

Therefore, there is no way to compare with a huge country, it takes Lesaibu eleven years to dig the canal, and Zhu Cijiong doesn't even need half a year to complete it!

Since it was decided to start construction, Zhu Cijiong immediately issued one will after another:

The Ministry of Industry organized relevant officials to prepare to go to the canal site to guide the construction;

Ordered the household department to join the Monan Chengxuan political envoy to immediately purchase 50,000 horses from the Monan grassland and transport them to Dongdaying to prepare for loading;

ordered other provinces to lease 50,000 flatbed carriages, which were also transported to Dongdaying to be loaded on ships;

The General Envoy Department and the Tai Hospital were able to recruit 1,000 physicians nationwide, acquire all kinds of medicinal materials, and send them all to Dongdaying;

ordered Daming Royal Machinery Group to transport 100 floor-turning dragons to Dongdaying for loading;

ordered the North Sea Fleet to load all kinds of materials on the ship in the East Daying, and all the personnel of all kinds were picked up on the ship, ready to be sent to the canal construction site;

Ordered the South China Sea Fleet to rush to Goa, preparing to send the Dingliao army and 500,000 prisoners to the canal construction site in batches.

He also sent people to the continent to inform Spain and Portugal to prepare grain, and asked the Portuguese branch of the Daming Xinglong firm in Spain to prepare to collect meat, vegetables and fruits to supply the canal site.

As soon as the decree went down, in less than ten days, all kinds of materials and personnel were in place, and even Su Yiman took the initiative to ask for help, and boarded the flagship of the North Sea Fleet, he was ready to accompany the officials of the Ming Empire to the canal construction site first, because the Egyptian governor in charge over there, Lester Pasha, was also an acquaintance with him, and he went to say hello, and the Ming Dynasty could get a lot of convenience.

Everything was ready, Zhu Cijiong personally rushed to Dongdaying to see him off, and he especially told the ambassadors of Tai Hospital who accompanied him this time to pay attention to the prevention and treatment of diseases, because there are too many epidemic diseases in that place, and if you don't pay attention, you will fall down a lot!

Half a month later, the Beiyang Naval Division fleet first felt that at the end of the Red Sea, this land is still a semi-sandy wasteland, and there is no human population at all, no wonder the Ottoman Empire only collected one million taels to sell this land of thousands of square kilometers to the Ming Dynasty, of course, mainly because of the purchase of Su Yiman and other cronies of His Majesty the Ottoman Emperor.

Su Yiman first received a large amount of benefits from Xiao Jiucheng, and now he wants to desperately tie up the Ming Empire, so this time he was quite active, as soon as he got off the ship, he took the cronies of the envoy group and Xiao Jiucheng and other Jinyi guards to fight horses and go straight to Cairo.

Fortunately, Cairo was less than 300 miles away, and they arrived after a day's run.

To Xiao Jiucheng's surprise, the Egyptian governor Lester Pasha was very enthusiastic about Suymana, just like seeing his old boss, he was a diligent mess, what was going on?

In fact, it is not surprising that Su Yiman is a red man in front of His Majesty the Emperor of the Ottoman Empire, although Lester is also a Pasha, and his position is even higher than Su Yiman, but he is not as close to the emperor as Su Yiman, it can be said that as long as Su Yiman gives him a few good words in front of the emperor, he can soar, if Su Yiman keeps advancing his slander on the emperor, he will die!

Therefore, as soon as he heard that Su Yiman had a particularly good relationship with the Ming Empire, he immediately showed extreme enthusiasm for the canal project, and he even summoned his officials in front of Su Yiman and Xiao Jiucheng and issued an extremely ridiculous order.

For example, what nearby garrisons have nothing to do to transport water for people, what nearby officials have nothing to organize civilians to send some vegetables and fruits, what do you want to make friends such as the Ming Empire feel like returning home, etc., etc., Xiao Jiucheng was stunned.

Soon after the arrival of the North Sea Fleet, the liaison officers of Spain and Portugal, and the European branch manager of the Ming Imperial Xinglong Merchant arrived one after another, and grain, meat, vegetables, fruits and other materials were also slowly delivered, and then the South China Sea Fleet also sent the Dingliao army and 500,000 prisoners in batches.

After all the personnel arrived, Qin Gongming and the officials of the Ministry of Industry discussed, picked an auspicious day of the zodiac nearby, prepared three animal sacrifices, sacrificed to the gods from all walks of life, and then set off a firecracker, and the canal was officially excavated!

At that scene, hundreds of earth-turning dragons suddenly opened, four or five hundred thousand people followed behind to brush the shovels, and the convoy transporting food and fresh water stretched for dozens of miles, provoking many local civilians to run for dozens or even hundreds of miles to see the excitement.

Even the governor of Egypt, Lester Pasha, had to sigh after coming to see it, the battle of the Ming Empire was simply amazing!